INTRODUCTION
This is the first in what will be a series of posts about Sweden, where I am currently on holiday. If you enjoy this post I recommend that you make Anna’s blog your next port of call.
AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES
Although I have only been in Sweden since Friday night, I already have a huge number of stunning pictures to share. For this first part of my stay I have been in the company of a cousin and his Swedish fiancee Ida. My cousin met me at Stockholm central bus station (Skavsta airport, where my flight landed is too far out of town for him to meet me there, so I got the Flygbussarna into town on Friday night. On Saturday we travelled to an island that has been owned by Ida’s family for some time. This journey entailed a bus to Stavsnas, a boat out to the nearest island reachable by commercial boat, and a walk across said island, on the other side of which we met Ida who rowed us across the sound to the island on which we would be staying. Here are a few pictures from this part of the stay…
of an aeroplane from high above.
The Island
This Island has no flushing toilets, and save for the main house no running water. It only got electricity in the 1940s. The sea is lovely to swim in, as I can attest from personal experience. We start with the house itself…
Here some pictures from inside the house…
I will be looking at more detail at the insect life I have encountered in a future post, but to whet the appetite here is a rare butterfly whose English name is Apollo…
Now, some general pictures taken while on the island…
SAILINGÂ THE STOCKHOLM ARCHIPELAGO IN AN OPEN BOAT
Richard and Ida had too much stuff to take back to their flat in Stockholm for the way we had reached the island to be appropriate, so we were escorted by private boat, along with Ida’s brother and his daughter. Here are some pictures from the Stockholm Archipelago…
Stavsnas to Stockholm
The last stage of the journey to the flat in which I write this, before heading off later today to catch a train to Kristinehamn, southern terminal of Inlandsbanan was by bus and tunnelbahn (the Stockholm Undergound, which I will be covering in a later post) yielded a few more pictures…
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What a beautiful place, and some lovely photos of Ida. I hope the rest of your stay goes as well!
Stunningly beautiful place Thomas
Reblogged this on Annas Art – FärgaregÃ¥rdsAnna and commented:
Check this post out! Our wp friend Thomas visiting Sweden. Stockholm archipelago is almost like Trosa archipelago. More boats, buildings and people in Stockholm. But to watch the pictures in the post is like watching my home area. Please leave comments in the original post/Anna
Thank you for your kind comments and for the reblog. Kristinehamn is an attractive little town. I am currently is Ostersund, just about to continue north to Gallivare on inlandsbanan – may get a post or two done there 🙂
Have a safe journey and I’m looking forward to your posts 🙂
Beautiful pictures. I hope you had a great day. All I know about Kristinehamn is that there’s a Picasso sculpture there 🙂
These pictures are so beautiful. I wanted to climb right into the computer screen.
Thank you 🙂
The red barn is a great pic and the water pics, especially dscn8156 the tree on a rock at the edge of the water.
Thank you. That tree really is growing out of bare rock by the way – there is no soil there at all.
Gorgeous place🙌💙 Amazing pictures👌
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It is indeed a gorgeous place. Thank you for the kind comment about my pictures.